Exercising

Prior to joining WW, I never exercised, unless you count meandering through Super Target. I'm still not doing anything hardcore, but I have started walking at work during breaks and lunch, if time allows. I work in a large, square-base building which makes for a great 'track'. Each lap around the inside is approximately 1/4 mile.  It takes me 5 minutes/lap so I walk 3 laps at each break and if I have time, I try to do 2 more laps during my 30-minute lunch. Therefore, on a perfect day, I get 8 laps in which makes for about 2 miles. This doesn't count the steps down and back to the bathroom or down to get water and back! On nice evenings, when there's time, we take the dog for a walk, too. Our path is just over a mile and slightly longer if I take him by myself.

My goal is to take 10,000 steps every day, which honestly doesn't happen as much as I'd like it to. A lot of days I'm around 8,000 steps which I'm still happy with. It's a lot more than I use to take in a day.

I have to remember that even though I don't walk as fast as others or walk as many laps as others do on break, that I'm MOVING and not just sitting all day.